Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower